Chapter 15 A Trip to China

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Kaka finally arrived, and the day before the match against Guangzhou Evergrande, he rushed to Guangzhou. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info He looked a little tired, Brazil lost to Argentina in the Copa America final, and he couldn't turn the tide. After resting for less than a week, he set off from Brazil and crossed the entire Pacific Ocean.

This is not the first time Chu Zhongtian has seen Kaka, but it is the first time he has seen Kaka as a teammate. Although tired, Kaka still welcomed Chu Zhongtian's joining.

Kaka and C. Ronaldo have a very, very close relationship, so much so that some fans in China have paired them together. Chu Zhongtian has gotten along well with C. Ronaldo for more than a month, so after the introduction of the Portuguese, the relationship between Chu Zhongtian and Kaka is not bad.

Although Kaka returned to the team, he was not included in the starting list for the match against Guangzhou Evergrande. After all, he had only flown in from Brazil the day before, and the jet lag had not been reversed, so Mourinho put him on the bench and planned to let him play again in the second half.

The Chinese media has been hyping about the match for more than a week, and on the day of the match, the hype reached its peak.

In Guangzhou, almost every newspaper on the market mentioned the match, and the local media in Guangzhou put it on the front page.

Not only because one of the participating teams in this match is Real Madrid, but also because of their opponents.

It's a bit of a fun game to talk about. Because Guangzhou Evergrande is known as the "Chinese Real Madrid" in Chinese football, this game is naturally regarded as "the real competition between Real Madrid and Chinese Real Madrid".

This gimmick is well worth the hype.

In the whole world of football, Real Madrid's status is self-evident, she is the best team of the century in the last century. In China, Guangzhou Evergrande is a newcomer to the Chinese Super League, having only played in China's top professional football league for the first time last season. In terms of honor and status, the two teams don't seem to have anything to do with each other at all.

The reason why it is given the title of "Chinese Real Madrid" is entirely because Guangzhou Evergrande is as rich as Real Madrid. The boss of Evergrande is engaged in real estate, and what is the most profitable thing to do in today's China, of course, is real estate! So it's not surprising that Evergrande is rich. Because they have money, they can buy the players they like and don't care about the transfer fee. They have repeatedly poached international players from other clubs at high prices, formed the most luxurious squad in China, and always spent a lot of money on foreign aid, creating large transfers, signing Brazilian striker Muric for $3.5 million last year, and signing Belgrade Partizan striker Cleo for 3.2 million euros. At a time when many Chinese capitals are scrambling to take out of the Chinese football circle, Guangzhou Evergrande is so generous, it cannot but be eye-catching.

It is precisely because of the generous purchase, the purchase of many international players and high-level foreign aid, and the practice of building China's top strong team that this team has won the nickname of "Chinese Real Madrid".

Now this "Chinese Real Madrid" is about to face the real Real Madrid, whether it is a horse or a mule, pull it out and walk it.

The tickets for the game had already been sold out in advance, and the scalpers had sold the tickets to 5,000 yuan each, and some people were still rushing to ask for ...... No wonder some people said sourly on Weibo that when the country is rich and the people are poor, there are shameless and immoral foreign clubs like Real Madrid to grab money, which is really the sorrow of the Chinese people. In the mouths of these people, Chu Zhongtian seems to have suddenly become a comprador and two devils who led foreigners to plunder my Chinese wealth...... "...... Real Madrid can so easily sweep away tens of millions from us under the banner of Chu Zhongtian, and it should be our sports hero, but it helps to do evil. The imperial court has been touting such sports heroes all day long, but the result is that the incumbent foreign club is just rolling money to advertise, which is really ironic! On Sina's meager side, a VIP-certified economist lashed out indignantly.

Of course, such voices are a minority after all, they sour them, and the first game of Real Madrid's trip to China still kicked off vigorously.

※※※At seven o'clock in the evening, the Guangdong Olympic Sports Center was full of people and brightly lit. With an hour to go before the start of the game, the 80,000-seat Olympic Sports Center was almost full.

This is the first appearance of Real Madrid in China with Chu Zhongtian, and Chinese fans have been waiting for it for a long time.

What position will Chu Zhongtian play? How many minutes will you play? What will the performance look like? How well does he fit with his teammates?

These are the questions that everyone is concerned about, and they are eager to find answers in this game.

In fact, Mourinho is also looking for answers.

For Chu Zhongtian's use, he had been thinking of ways to allow him to exert his greatest energy. He was a figure like the emperor at Hoffenheim, and it is said that he was involved in the development of the team's tactical arrangements and training plans. It is obviously impossible to give him that power at Real Madrid, so how can he perform at the level he had at Hoffenheim under the current conditions?

In order to give full play to Chu Zhongtian's abilities, Rangnick spent three seasons building him into a new kind of free man.

Do you want to copy it yourself?

Mourinho was not very willing, and he wanted to re-study a tactic to allow Chu Zhongtian to play a different side.

In this game, he arranged the position of Chu Zhongtian as a midfielder, and when defending, he withdrew and Harvey. Alonso defended together, but when attacking he was positioned higher than Alonso, almost becoming a midfielder.

Mourinho intends to make the most of Chu Zhongtian's attacking prowess. Alonso was in charge of controlling the tempo, while Chu Zhongtian was in charge of organising the attack.

'You have to be active in the attack, in every attack. You know, Chu? Assistant coach Karanka is explaining the tactical requirements to Chu Zhongtian, anyway, Chu Zhongtian has already shown his superhuman physical fitness in previous training, so when the coaching staff arranges his tactics, they don't consider whether his physical fitness is enough to support the whole game.

※※※ In fact, it is impossible to test the success of the tactics with this game, because the opponent is too weak...... Just twelve minutes into the game, Real Madrid scored.

Because of Chu Zhongtian's start, the fans let out a huge cheer, which sounded with Chu Zhongtian's every touch of the ball, and when Real Madrid scored, the cheers became even louder.

Chu Zhongtian did not directly assist this goal, but he was involved. Just like what the coaching staff asked before the game, he was actively involved and created chances.

At that time, Alonso handed him the football, he did not directly split the side, but took the ball forward in the deafening cheers of the fans, and after attracting three Evergrande players to come, he gave the football to Ozil, Ozil and Higuain played a one-two combination, into the penalty area, and then crossed, C. Ronaldo cut in from behind at high speed, and easily swept the football into the empty goal.

The whole process is very simple, it doesn't look complicated or flashy, but it works. That's what Real Madrid is all about football.

In fact, Chu Zhongtian did not have a hard time adapting to Real Madrid, because Real Madrid and Hoffenheim's football styles are similar in some ways. It's all about speed, and it's all about high speed and directness.

But it's not enough to adapt, he transferred to Real Madrid for 70 million euros, everyone just wants to see him adapt to Real Madrid, and he must also play his dominant ability in Hoffenheim, or even higher, otherwise it will be considered a parallel import.

It was C. Ronaldo who scored the goal, which of course made the fans feel excited and excited, because this is the biggest star in the Real Madrid team at present, except for Chu Zhongtian - this standard is set by Chinese fans.

Real Madrid, who visited China in 2005, was criticized for not recording a CCTV program and not contributing to the competition, and many media directly called Real Madrid "Royal Circus". This time, Florentino clearly wanted to wash away such a stigmatizing title.

Guangzhou Evergrande didn't expect that the game had only started twelve minutes before their back line was penetrated. Speaking of which, where did the confusion at the back start when C. Ronaldo seized the opportunity? Of course, Chu Zhongtian suddenly stepped forward, attracting three defensive players at once, and only eleven people could play in total, except for the ten people who opened the door, three people were used here, so the defensive strength in other places was naturally weak. In order to fill the gap here, they have to use the defensive force of the next place, and the next vacancy has to use the defensive force of the next place, which has become a chain reaction, and in the end, the door is wide open, and no matter how remedy it is, it can't be filled.

You can say that the players of Guangzhou Evergrande take Chu Zhongtian too seriously. But standing and talking will never hurt your back, if you really go up to face Chu Zhongtian, you know that you can't pay too much attention to it.

In Guangzhou Evergrande, there are still several Chu Zhongtian's teammates in the national team, they know Chu Zhongtian a lot, and when they meet Chu Zhongtian, they still rush up, what can be done?

Chu Zhongtian performed well, and C. Ronaldo scored again, but this one goal can be said to be worth the ticket price.

In the midst of the crowd of fans, the players of Real Madrid were a little more rhythmic. After all, they are still quite worried that the opposing players are too excited, and it is not worth getting injured in such a game. The start of the league is less than a month away...... Because Chu Zhongtian is not responsible for controlling the rhythm, he doesn't care about this matter, all he can do is send the football to the deadly place again and again.

Evergrande, on the other hand, fought back fiercely, and they seemed to be irritated by Real Madrid's slowing down after taking the lead, putting aside their fear of Real Madrid and starting to want to beat them.

However, the difference in strength between the two sides is still too large.

In the 37th minute, Real Madrid used a quick counterattack to seize the opportunity of Evergrande's eagerness to equalize, and C. Ronaldo ran wildly with the ball and distributed it to Higuain, who followed up in the middle, and the Argentine shooter scored the football into Evergrande's goal.

The two-goal lead completely took the suspense out of the outcome of this game. Next, I am looking forward to whether Chu Zhongtian can score a goal or something, or whether Evergrande can score one, and when Kaka will appear.

In the second half, Mourinho gradually began to replace the players on the field, and the first person he replaced was C. Ronaldo, the Portuguese iron man, if he was injured in this game, Real Madrid's loss would be great. After replacing C. Ronaldo, Mourinho replaced Higuain, who had not been back long after returning from injury, and sent Benzema. Then Carvalho, Harvey. Alonso...... One by one, they were replaced. But Chu Zhongtian has always stayed on the court.

Mourinho is actually not as unkind as everyone thinks, although he does not approve of the club's trip to China, but the matter has been decided, he is still very face-saving, and took the initiative to engage in an intra-team game that made the fans watch very happy in training, and in this game, Chu Zhongtian played the whole game.

After all, this is Chu Zhongtian's motherland...... Kaka only came on in the 77th minute of the game to replace Mesut Ozil.

Kaka's appearance is another ** of the game. The Brazilian star is quite popular in China, although he is not as powerful as he used to be.

The second half was mostly rotation players or fringe players, so these guys worked harder than the main players in the first half. Of course, the results were even more brilliant.

Karim Benzema scored in the second half, Granero scored from a direct free-kick and Kaka came on to win a penalty that he converted.

In the end, Real Madrid had the last laugh in this so-called "duel between the two Real Madrids", defeating Guangzhou Evergrande with a score of 5:0.

The game was exciting and there were a lot of goals, but many fans were still sorry when they left the Olympic Sports Center.

Because Chu Zhongtian did not score a goal and did not have direct assists, although he participated in several goals, he did not have assists and goals. It's a shame for everyone.

Although the game was generally wonderful and successful, Chu Zhongtian did not score, as if the Chinese New Year's Eve meal in the Chinese New Year's Eve night was missing the plate of dumplings...... the day after the game, Chu Zhongtian's performance also became the focus of major domestic media reports, and there was also a very heated discussion on the Internet.

The so-called layman looks at the liveliness, and the insider looks at the doorway. Most fans only care about whether Chu Zhongtian scores a goal, and experts analyze how Chu Zhongtian and Real Madrid are running-in.

Overall, it is better than everyone imagined, Chu Zhongtian and his new teammates have established a basic tacit understanding, but sometimes it still seems that the tacit understanding is not enough. Otherwise, Chu Zhongtian would not have even scored and assisted. There were several times in the game when Chu Zhongtian passed a very good ball, but his teammates didn't expect that he didn't catch it and couldn't form a shot. Or Chu Zhongtian ran in position, and his teammates' passes didn't keep up, and when he passed it again, it was either offside, or he was in a bad position, barely shooting, and couldn't score.

Everyone is making suggestions for how Chu Zhongtian will integrate into Real Madrid, Chu Zhongtian is not the first Chinese player to join a European giant, there is Dong Fangzhuo before him. However, he is definitely the most promising Chinese player to play in the main team of the big club, so everyone has high hopes for him.

Even a commercial game is regarded as so important by everyone, as if you can smoothly integrate into the team if you score a goal in this game, and if you don't score a goal, you will have a bumpy future and a bad fate.

What about Chu Zhongtian himself? I don't care, I can feel that Mourinho hasn't made up his mind about how to use it, so the result and the process of this kind of game don't speak for itself.

Zidane's transfer to Real Madrid took nearly half a season to gradually adapt to the football of La Liga and Real Madrid, showing his level, so why should he be in a hurry?

After all, he is not the type of C. Ronaldo who has to serve him as long as he plays well, he doesn't need to adapt, as long as he plays his best, he will naturally be very good. I am a midfielder, a playmaker, and I need to serve the whole team, not let the whole team serve me, so I need an adaptation period.

※※※ After the whole Real Madrid team finished the match in Guangzhou, they flew to Shanghai early the next morning to prepare for the match there and various activities.

In Shanghai, the whole Real Madrid team had to participate in the recording of a football program on CCTV Sports Channel, and in 2005 they failed to make an appointment, and this time they can't miss it again anyway.

Among them, the busiest is still Chu Zhongtian.

His popularity is high in Guangzhou, and it is no different in Shanghai. If Real Madrid is willing to go to Chengdu, Sichuan, it is estimated to be even higher.

If Real Madrid wants to make money in China, Chu Zhongtian's golden sign must not fall, and it must be used well.

The schedule in Shanghai is very tight, and there is very little time left for the team to train outside of various business activities.

Despite this, Real Madrid defeated Shanghai Shenhua 4-0 at the 80,000-man stadium with a strong strength.

Chu Zhongtian still has no assists and goals, although everyone thinks his performance is very good, but the lack of goals and assists always feels dazzling enough. You must know that Chu Zhongtian's current value is the third in the Real Madrid team, and he is at the same level as Kaka, and he can be regarded as a "superstar". It's a shame to play two commercial games in my own country and not even score a goal.

You must know that it is not easy for Chinese fans to see Chu Zhongtian wearing Real Madrid's white jersey under their noses...... After finishing the game in Shanghai, Chu Zhongtian returned to Spain with the whole team, and the lively trip to China ended. From August 2 to August 8, Real Madrid rolled up 5.5 million euros in various appearance fees, and if they are willing to arrange a few more commercial matches in other Asian countries, especially Japan, it will not be a problem to roll up 10 million euros in the end.

Even that is quite impressive.

Florentino even began to plan on the plane back to Madrid whether he would come to Asia, especially China, every summer for business competitions. In this case, 70 million is not a lot of investment at all......

(To be continued)